Hesperides Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF BABA GHGH| Men say beyond the western seas | A |
| The happy isles no longer glow | B |
| No sailor sights Hesperides | A |
| All that was long ago | B |
| - | |
| No longer in a glittering morn | C |
| Their misty meadows flicker nigh | D |
| No singing with the spray is borne | C |
| All that is long gone by | D |
| - | |
| To day upon the golden beach | E |
| No gold haired guardian maidens stand | F |
| No apples ripen out of reach | E |
| And none are mad to land | F |
| - | |
| The merchant men 'tis they say so | B |
| That trade across the western seas | A |
| In hurried transit to and fro | B |
| About Hesperides | A |
| - | |
| But Reader not as these thou art | G |
| So loose thy shallop from its hold | H |
| And trusting to the ancient chart | G |
| Thou 'It make them as of old | H |
Richard Le Gallienne
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